Huntsville gazette., 1887-11-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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burned on the night of the 18th, loss
100000.
THIRTY buildings were burned at st.
Peter, Mimi, on the night of the 18th, in
Guiding two hotels, the First National
Bank, several large stores, restaurants,
millinery stores, saloons, the American
| Express office and several barns The
| fire ragged until it reached break in the
buildings. The loss is fully 800, 900. One
third of the business portion of the city
| is destroyed.
WILFRED H. NEvIN, editor and senior
| proprietor of the Pittsburgh (Pa) Leader,
| died at his home in Sewickley, Pa, on the
| 18th, of consumption, aged thirty-nine
years.
FIFTEEN members of the National League
were sentenced at Kilrush, Ireland, on the
| 18th, to one months Imprisonment at hard
labor. They were removed from the court
| singing "God Save Ireland"
THREE tramps were arrested at Wal
| lace, n. NJ, on the 18th, in whose pos
session was found over a thousand dol
lars worth of valuable silks and other
merchandise stolen from freight cars in
| transit.
AN explosion Of gas occurred in the gen.
Grating house of the Omaha (Neb.) gas
works on the 10Th, causing a loss of $50,
600. The firemen succeeded in subduino
the flames before they reached the main
| reservoirs.
HERR Most delivered himself Of one Of
his most violent and vituperat;ve ha-
| rangues in the back hall Of a New York
saloon on the night of the 18th. He de-
| clared his willingness to follow in the
footsteps of his dead comrades.
LEADING journal of the City of Mexico
in an editorial on the recent Anarchist
executions says: at is commonly said
| that had the same outbreak of Anarchis SIN
occurred here all the prisoners concerned
| in the conspiracy would have been shot
after a brief trial.
SWITZERLAND has given notice to Aus
tria that she Will terminate the COM
mercial treaty between the two countries
and subs titute therefor a tariff conven-
tiOn with most favored nation clause.
PAUL CASOMAYER, a chemist and famous
as an expert in sugar testing, died sudden
ly on the 18th at the Bridge police station
in Brooklyn, whittier he had been carried
on being taken suddenly i'll.
ANTHONY COMSTOCK'S agents arrested
DR.. Roth in New York on the 18th for sell
ing the interdcted reproductions of pict-
ures from the Paris salons.
The six-day race at London between
Woodside and Howell on bicy cIes and two
| American cowboys on horses ended on the
night of the 18th. The cowboys who were
| allowed the use of an unlimited number Of
horses, won the race by two miles and $50
| yards.
A DOZEN tenants of building, corner
of WASHINGTON and First avenue south,
Minneapolis, Mimi, sustained losses by
| fire and water, on the evening of the 18Th,
aggregating $4,000; insurance will cover
at least half the loss.
The Chinese Minister at Washington
has invitations out for @ gentlemen's din
ner party on November so. The event is
to celebrate the birthday of the Empress
of China.
A MEETING of the creditors with the
assignees of Archbishop Purcell was held
. at Music Hall, Cincinnati, on the night of
the 18th to confer on the advisability of
selling what is known as the property on
Price hill, which, it is believed, will bring
about 100000. The general feeling was
in favor of selling it. How the assignees
| will act has not transpired
A MoGUL engine and eight cars crashed
through bridge over Paint creek, on the
Southern Ohio railroad near Greenfield,
O., on the morning of the 18th. The fire
man, Jacob Hill, was so badly injured
that he died in the afternoon, but the en-
gneer was not seriously injured. The en-
gine and cars were badly wrecked.
NINE. ETELKA GERsTER, the sweet song
stress. arrived at Now York on the 18th.
She is to appear in a series of concerts un-
der the management of Mr.. Abbey.
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN and William Rich
ardson, highway robbers, are under arrest
at St Thomas, Ont, for robOing and
numbering a farmer named Thomas Hath
away on the night Of the 18th.
THE corners stone of handsome monu-
ment to the German poet Goethe was laid
in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, neai'
Horticultural hall, on the 14th, with
Masonic ceremonies.
A NUMBER of boys were playing on an
embankment in a vacant lot in Phlla-
delphia on the 14th, when a huge bank of
earth caved in and instantly killed James
Hurley, aged eleven, and his brother
John, aged nine. Two or three other boys
were injured.
Don NJ. DICKINSON of Michigan, has ex-
pressed willingness to accept the Post
master eneralship.
THE city of Limerick, Ireland, has been
proclaimed under the Crimes act.
THE United States Supreme Court has
declared invalid the famous ''driyen welP'
patent
THE agent of the Colombian Govern
ment makes a favorable report on the
Panama canal.
MINISTER TAYLOR, recently returned
from Liberia, says that it IS the worst
country he ever saw.
THE building of the Belgian Ministry OF
Agriculture at Brussels was destroyed by
fire on the 14th.
A. s. HATCH & Co., prominent bear op-
orators on the New York Stock Exchange,
suspended on the 14th
REPORTS from the Tullamore (ireland)
iail are to the effect that William OBrlen
is in a precarious state of health.
IT has been ascertained that Louis
Lngg, the Chicago Anarchist suicide,
killed himself with a dynamite bomb, and
not with illuminate cap.
THE joint committee of the League and
American Association of base ball clubs
met at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 14th, and
agreed to recommend some important
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